Mine Health and Safety Grants

For programmatic or technical questions:

Elif Evrim Polat
202.693.9570
polat.elif.e@dol.gov

Ursula A. Frazier
202.693.9883
Frazier.Ursula@dol.gov

For grants management or budget questions:

Shundreka R Mims-Randolph
202.693.9358
Mimsrandolph.Shundreka.R@dol.gov

Mine Health and Safety Grants provide funding to prevent fatalities, disease, and injury from mining and secure safe and healthy working conditions for miners.

Funding may be used for:

• Developing and enforcing state mining laws and regulations
• Improving state workers' compensation and mining occupational disease laws and programs
• Improving safety and health conditions in the nation's mines through federal-state coordination and cooperation
• Training on miners' statutory rights, including the right to be provided a safe working environment and the right to refuse an unsafe task
• Education and training related to occupational health hazards and diseases

Eligible applicants include:

• State, county, city, township, and special district governments
• Public/state controlled institutions of higher education
• Federally recognized native American tribal governments
• Tribal organizations
• Minority serving educational institutions

Estimated number of awards: 56
Project period: 1 year
Estimated total program funding: $10,537,000

States must provide matching funds of at least 20% of the total program costs.

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov.

To locate application instructions:

1. Open the grants.gov announcement.
2. Click on the package tab.
3. Choose to preview the opportunity package.
4. Click on the button that says download instructions.
5. Application instructions will be in your browser download folder.